It was obvious that Dad didn't want to give me explanations.

-He's just an old friend of dad's-. He didn't look at me, but I looked at him with skepticism.

-Where do you know him from?-.

-From here, he helped your great-grandmother when we came-.

-Was he just that?-.

-Yes-. He answered curtly, while continuing to serve dinner, but I still didn't understand, because we would have a newspaper clipping with a photo of that man and...I approached our altar and grabbed the old photo of my great-grandfather and Mr. Miyagi; I stared at it thoughtfully. I always knew he could have taught someone else what... he did, but I didn't know exactly what my father was drinking wine with that someone; Did Mr. Larusso know anything else about Alpha Elite? And my dad would have chosen the Valley at random to come teach here?-.

-And how did you know about that newspaper clipping?-.

-Louisa told me about him-.

-Louisa doesn't remember things from the past very well anymore-. I wasn't so convinced, Louisa was trying to tell me something, in her own way; I gave him one of my accusatory glances; but if one thing was more notable, was that my Dad was acting strange, he seemed to be trying to hide something from me.

-Excuse me, young lady, but I don't think I have to give you explanations-. That was my father's old tactic (which he almost always used with mom) to end discussions. We decided to end it, and have our dinner in peace, but I knew we had things to do in the Valley (especially Dad).

A couple of days passed and our first summer in the Valley began, and that was a bad thing, that we were still in Valley. I really waited for that summer to start (especially after Yasmine's little prank) so that the three of us would go even if it was to visit Mom and Louisa, at first I assumed that Dad was finishing some school work, or that he wanted to be a little nicer and go visit his... old friend, now that they had met again, he even made me go to meet Mrs. Larusso, or well, Amanda, who seemed to be cute and funny although Sam differed on that; Unfortunately (or fortunately) I didn't get to meet the Larusso's little boy, Anthony, who was camping, but Sam said it was so much better in that way. Everything stayed that way (annoyingly for me) until one afternoon we ran into Samantha by chance; Jackie and I were playing in the front yard when Sam pulled up in her car, I wasn't sure where she came from, but she seemed to have wet hair. -Hi, Sam-.

-Hi!-. She greeted us cheerfully, to which Jackie barked enthusiastically, he soon becoming fond of Sam.

-How are you? Did you go to the beach or something?-. I asked her as I gently touched the end of her braid that was dripping.

-Um, no- She responded quickly as she snatched it from my hands and squeezed it to release all the liquid.

-I was helping my dad... with his new pond-. It didn't sound very credible... but oh well.

-If you say so-.

-In fact, I wanted to talk to you about that, your dad said that you practice dance and yoga-.

-Yes-. I blushed.

-I've practiced a bit of that over the last years-.

-That's great, and we think we could use it in our new dojo this summer-.

-New dojo?-. I looked at her as if I didn't understand.

-Yeah, I understand that your parents knew Mr. Miyagi-.

-Yes, he was a friend of my family-.

-Well, my dad wants to open a dojo with his techniques, but we really need more students, and we think who better than someone who already knows the technique and is skilled? what do you think?-.

-You're very considerate, I would love to, but now I can't, my father and I...-. I heard a bark from the ground.

-I'm sorry, My father, Jackie and I are going to Boston to see my mother and great-grandmother-.

-Oh, your father hadn't told us anything about that-.

-Yes, he's been finishing things from his work, you know, and even more so now that the old friends have reunited-. we both laughed.

-But we all miss our home and I think it's a good time-. I said, stroking my pet's head.

-Okay, but keep in mind that our doors will always be open if you want to join us-.

-I apreciate it-. And it was true, although it was hard to admit it, the Larussos had made us feel at home, and I felt bad, because at first, I refused to meet them.

-We train at Mr. Miyagi's old house, I can send you the address so you can have it-.

-Thank you, but wait, We?-.

-Yup, me and Robby-. I'd seen that Robby kid hanging around the Larusso house a lot lately, and I couldn't help but wonder if there was something going on with Sam; After she broke up with Kyler, a rumor spread that she was dating that boy, Miguel, but now he is with Cobra Kai, I don't know what to think.

-Thanks for everything, Samantha, we have to go inside-. I said waving goodbye.

Inside dad had arrived with the supermarket bags. -Hello, my loves-.

-Hi, dad-. I said, as I started taking things out of the bag, there were a lot of things that I knew Dad wouldn't buy.

-I want to try something new-.

-What? Did your friend give you a recipe? You should save it to cook for mom when we get back home-. dad suddenly stopped.

-Speaking of, Daniel told me about a new project this summer-.

-Are you talking about his new dojo? Samantha told me about it five minutes ago-.

-He asked me if you wouldn't want to join them-.

-Yup, it's a deja vu, she already made me the offer, and, I appreciate it, I told her I couldn't do it now, maybe after the summer-.

-After summer?-.

-Yes, after we get back from Boston-.

-Back?-.

-Well, I assumed we would return home this summer-. Dad wasn't looking at me, something was wrong.

-Will we not return?-.

-It's just... honey, so many things have happened these last months-. "Many Things...?

-Is this for Cobra Kai?-.

-Why would it be anything else?-. I noticed his jaw tighten when he talked about them; He didn't sound like my dad, he never got that involved in things like Cobra Kai, and boy, there are several Cobra Kai's around the country.

-Ugh, Dad, for God's sake, it's not your fight!-.

-Daniel will need help-.

-Since when have you been involved with dojos?-.

-You didn't even get involved in the illegal drug groups at the other schools-.

-I am happy to think that this is more positive than teaching them just how to fight, teaching them why they should fight-.

-That's admirable but I really want to go home-.

-I know, honey, but I'm going to need my girl-.

-I'll talk to mom-.

-I already went ahead and spoke to your mother, she agrees-. Mom? agrees?.

-Sure?-.

-Yeah-.

-What if I say no?-.

-I won't let you go to Boston alone-.

-But, Dad! It's not fair!-. Dad doesn't answer me anymore. Something was strange, I doubted that my mother would agree, according to dad she had known Daniel for years, but the two of them had promised me that we could return home soon, what was their concept of soon?.

In the next few days, I was hardly at home, I didn't feel like talking to Dad, and I had to decline Sam's offer again, I didn't feel like seeing things that I already knew, if he wanted to do it, it was his business; I didn't even want to go near the Cobra Kai dojo, because of them I couldn't go home until those idiots closed their doors. One afternoon, wandering around downtown, I came across a gym that looked quite prestigious, that offered artistic gymnastics classes. One of the teachers saw me looking at the flyer and invited me to come in. The first thing I saw when I entered was several girls doing cartwheels in the air, one of them fell impeccably, and as soon as she saw me, it seemed like she had seen an alien enter, but I simply didn't give it any importance, and the teacher invited me to her office to discuss, I didn't object at any time, otherwise I was going to return home, at least I was going to occupy my time learning something other than seeing the same things that had been seen in many of the schools in the country...